Posted on 08/30/2009 4:57:55 AM PDT by VRWCTexan
If they could vote to keep or replace the entire Congress, just 25% of voters nationwide would keep the current batch of legislators.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 57% would vote to replace the entire Congress and start all over again
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I’d like to replace them with a damn house plant!
It would be great if they would VOTE that way for a change. They usually vote the same old jerks in again.
I’m working to return my former congressman to office.
If this is one of those rare instances where amateurs would do less damage, you have to wonder about the nature of the job. (Perhaps it’s to do damage?)
Hussein will, at some point, either take advantage of a crisis or make one happen - at which point he too will remain in power until physically removed.
These guys are not you father’s Democrats - these guys are the 60’s ultra radicals - the ones who blew up things, burned cities, and killed people.
While I sympathise with the sentiment, I can’t jump on the bandwagon with this, and I think it’s largely a non-thinking, knee-jerk emotional response more than anything else.
What people forget is that there still is a gaggle of good Republican legislators in the House and Senate - they just get smeared with the rest of the crowd because of that minority of GOPers who always want to be “bipartisan” and “reach across the aisle” and which end up dominating attention.
Graham, McCain, Snowe, Collins, this little Crist mini-me replacing Mel Martinez in Florida? Get rid of them the next chance we get.
But why toss out solid conservatives like DeMint, Barasso, Coburn, and Thune?
Or even, why toss out those GOPers who sometimes do things that annoy us, but who still have solidly conservative voting records (i.e. who do the right thing when it actually counts?) like Kyl, Shelby, Chambliss, Roberts, Bond, Hatch, etc.? Remember, for example, despite the high prolife attention that a few RINOs got for voting for Sotomayor, 31 out of 39 of them still voted AGAINST her.
Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I have been saying this for eons.
To GOP Leader Steele, ask all GOP Leaders to submit fascia resignations and run a completely new slate in 2010.
Flat Tax is so needed with a total number of words no greater than the constitution and bill of rights, 22,000 words if my memory is correct.
Then say goodbye to "K" street which is where the cesspool really is....
You don’t attack the symptom. You attack the cause. Get back to constitutionally constrationed Governance and suddenly lobbyists start hearing “that’s not in our power under the US Constitution”. Lobbyists are then unnecessary for most of what they do now.
Replacing all of them is a logical first step.
But, how do we get rid of Obama’s shadow government of czars (grand dukes, oligarchs, gangsters, whatever they are ...)
While I agree they’ll try, talk like that is real effective at getting people to give up.
Just saying, not proposing.
I wouldn’t have a problem with lobbyists aside from the fact that they have millions of dollars to spread among multiple congressmen from multiple states.
We get to write a letter to our sole congressman and offer a minimal amount at election time.
People may not agree with this, but we also need TERM LIMITS. Serving as a representative of the people was never meant to be a career choice.
TERM LIMITS
That would be me. Even if a few good ones are lost, I’ve come to conclusion anyone spending more than 2 years has probably stayed too long.
Was the question asked “Do you want to replace YOUR Congressman or Senator?”.
If it was they probably would have received a different response. In most elections post voting surveys ask that question and the majority of people want to keep THEIR representatives but throw out everybody else. Until that opinion changes we will end up with the same bunch of yahoo’s we have now.
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